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Silent witness
NEWS FOCUS: Nightly bombing raids have made Afghanistan a perilous place - but the country's inability to feed its people and care for the sick means a cruel fate awaits even those who survive the onslaught.Tash Shifrin reports
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The rights stuff
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: Now the Human Rights Act 1998 is up and running, David Owens and Susan Thompson wonder what it means in practice for the NHS
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IN PERSON
Graeme Betts has been appointed chief executive of Hillingdon primary care trust.He is currently London borough of Hillingdon director of social services and has been on secondment as acting PCT chief executive since last month.He has worked in social services departments in Coventry and other London boroughs.Mr Betts replaces David ...
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Partially sighted
NEWS FOCUS: Decades of uneasy truce between the NHS and the private sector should be replaced by something more positive - and more honest.Steve Mathieson reports on an appeal to put ideology on one side
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On the look-out
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: A survey of medium-secure units raises questions about their planned growth, report Jeff Jaycock and Tony Bamber
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Opportunity knocked
OPEN SPACE: Despite a crippling shortage of nurses, Maggie Oldham says the NHS is continuing to ignore a rich source of recruitment - asylum seekers
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Hosts with the most
REFUGEE SERVICES: One PCT has chosen to respond to the needs of its 1,500-plus asylum-seeker population by setting up a special scheme to provide walk-in clinics, home visits and referrals.Kay Ratcliffe reports
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The odd couple
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: The government is proposing changes to the regulations governing staff transfers in response to the ongoing row over PFI in the NHS. Daniel Lee explains the proposed route through the legal minefield
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Safe conduct
NEWS FOCUS: Anthrax could be the least of our problems, according to a Royal College of Physicians seminar that sought to reassure health workers. Paul Dinsdale listened to the advice